A 57-year-old Massachusetts father was fatally shot on Thursday when he got into an altercation with a man he witnessed allegedly spray painting graffiti at his neighborhood park, authorities said. The shooting erupted around 8:47 a.m. in Shrewsbury, about 35 miles west of Boston, prompting a lockdown of an elementary school near the scene of the crime and a response from SWAT teams and Massachusetts State Police troopers, officials said at a news conference on Thursday afternoon. A 26-year-old man was arrested in the homicide following a three-hour manhunt, according to the Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. The suspect's name was not immediately released. Early said the victim had dropped his 6-year-old child off at school and was walking home when he spotted the susp
Dad gunned down in confrontation over graffiti

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